Nelson Shanks (John Nelson Shanks) Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
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When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I think by the next generation either we'll have a lot of idiots who are just completely immersed in media and corporatized information, or we'll have people who enjoy media and corporatized information, but are more interconnected with human beings around the world ... And who share common goals and are willing to accept that they are a global citizen. I think the latter is more the direction.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
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This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.
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If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.
